BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CSH - ECPv4.6.23//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:CSH X-ORIGINAL-URL: X-WR-CALDESC:Events for CSH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC+2:20180518T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC+2:20180518T153000 DTSTAMP:20200605T191744 CREATED:20180514T073944Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190212T110436Z SUMMARY:CSH Talk by David Garcia: "Affective Intelligence in Online Political Discussion Forums" DESCRIPTION:The lecture by David Garcia will take place at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna in Room 201.\nIf you are interested in participating\, please email to\nAbstract:\nAffective Intelligence Theory (AIT) postulates that political behavior is strongly influenced by affective states.\nEnthusiasm and aversion lead people to rely on simple cognitive heuristics and reinforce social identity\, whereas anxiety causes people to adopt more complex cognitive strategies and weakens group boundaries.\nUntil now\, AIT has mostly been tested on survey data.\nInstead\, we tested a dimensional reformulation of AIT (DAIT) against data from a German-speaking online news community\,\nIn this community\, users discuss recent news and give up and down votes to each others’ comments\, often producing heated discussions.\nWe find that discussions characterized by low affective potency and extreme valence (“enthusiasm” and “aversion”) produce more polarized votes and signal lower cognitive complexity than discussions with high potency (“anxiety”) and/or less extreme valence.\nThis effect is even stronger when there is a high salience of social identity in discussions.\nThus\, we can confirm DAIT\, and open the door for further analysis of DAIT in other languages and settings. \n URL: LOCATION:CSH Vienna\, Josefstaedter Straße 39\, Wien\, 1080 CATEGORIES:CSH Event ORGANIZER;CN="Complexity%20Science%20Hub%20Vienna" END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR